"The sewers?"

Su Wanying sat in her chair drinking coffee.

"The intelligence we got points to the sewers, though it might not be accurate."

Chi Xiaoyu and Lin Bai sat across from her. Chi Xiaoyu seriously studied the map of D City on her phone, deducing possible hiding places for the Bishop of Envy.

What she didn't know was that while Su Wanying appeared to be discussing intelligence properly on the surface, under the table she had already taken off her shoes and extended her feet, continuously attacking Lin Bai's upper thighs. Lin Bai struggled to control his facial expression while constantly dodging Su Wanying's advances.

Su Wanying picked up her phone and messaged Lin Bai.

"You obviously like it. You used to ask me to help you often. Why are you dodging now?"

"What do I like? I don't like it at all. Don't you see where we are?"

"You mean it would be okay in a more private place?"

"You dare do this here—in a more private place wouldn't you just pounce on me directly?"

"That's not impossible either. Love you."

Just then Chi Xiaoyu put down her phone, and Su Wanying quickly straightened up to ask seriously.

"Do you have a way to find them?"

"Already looking."

In the sewers, countless infants crawled continuously. Their speed wasn't fast but their numbers were enormous. They had no eyes, but they remembered all the paths their companions had walked. Through the infants' constant trial and error, they finally locked onto a location. Countless infants began gathering in the city center sewers, crying...

"Found them!"

"Very good. E City really has talented people."

"You flatter us."

"Eh, Lin Bai, why is your face so red?"

...

City Center

"Go! Go! Go!"

Countless fully armed SWAT officers surrounded the city center and evacuated the crowds. Officially this was a drill, but in reality it was an extermination of anomalies.

"All units maintain contact. Team One goes down first!" Su Wanying had changed into special clothing that outlined her alluring curves. The material looked very special—who knew what effects it had.

"Roger!" The voices of squad leaders came through the radio.

"Is it necessary to involve civilians in this?" Chi Xiaoyu asked in confusion.

"Do you know how many people have gone missing?" Su Wanying sighed and asked back.

"Several thousand?" Chi Xiaoyu pondered.

"Thirty thousand!" Su Wanying answered.

Lin Bai thought about it and said slowly, "That means even if they just stood there and let us kill them, we'd need several days and nights..."

"With such large numbers, didn't the families of the missing report it? Won't it cause social panic?"

"They only target people without many relatives—either homeless people or students who are single-parent or whose parents aren't around." Su Wanying's expression darkened.

After hearing this, Lin Bai pondered—no wonder they targeted Lin Xinyao.

"Calling command, Team One has encountered enemies and is engaged in combat. Suppressing!"

"Calling command, Team Two is all normal with no encounters."

"Where do we go?"

"To Team Two."

"Why? Shouldn't we help Team One?"

"Would you put a wall at your front door?"

"You mean?"

"Since Team One has large numbers of low-grade Cold Anomalies, that can't be their core location."

Everyone hurried to Team Two's position. Chi Xiaoyu also put on her exoskeleton armor. Around them were many D City contractors also wearing their exoskeleton armor, clearly indicating their status as C-grade and above squad leaders.

Coming to the central area, they saw that the originally narrow, filthy sewers opened up dramatically after they passed through an entrance. Clean white walls and sterile floors were so out of place in these dirty sewers.

"What a large laboratory!"

Approaching the pure white door, Chi Xiaoyu, experienced in dealing with unopenable doors, directly slashed it open. The door continuously emitted sizzling electrical sounds.

Seeing this, Lin Bai couldn't help but laugh. 【Why isn't she kicking doors anymore!】

Just then, a voice rang out.

"Oh ho ho, little girl, carelessly destroying other people's property is very immoral."

A man in protective gear riding a magnetic levitation device appeared before everyone.

"What brings you here to find me?"

"Release all those people you've imprisoned!"

"Release? I haven't restricted their movements at all. What imprisonment?"

"Some were envious that others were naturally better than them. I told them I could give them a new beginning."

"Some envied others' wealth and comfort. I told them I could give them riches."

"Some envied others being strong, healthy, and superior. I told them I could give them power to make them superior too."

The man put his hands behind his back, looking down at everyone. "Tell me, what did I do wrong?"

Everyone immediately began discussing among themselves.

"He seems right. Yeah, those Cold Anomalies really weren't locked up here. They could have left whenever they wanted."

"How do you explain the Cold Anomalies harming people?"

"Oh? I granted them the power they wanted, but I never instructed them to harm people. That's their inability to control their own instincts. How can you blame me?"

"Glib tongue. What's your real purpose?"

"Purpose? Hahaha, I have no purpose. I'm just an incredibly good person."

The man in protective gear secretly glanced at the device in his hand. His heart was already impatient.

【Faster, faster!】

"Stop wasting words with him. Attack!"

Countless contractors and armed personnel began attacking the man. His magnetic levitation disc opened a blue protective shield that blocked most of the damage. Seeing this, Chi Xiaoyu leaped up and slashed at the shield.

Amid thunder and shattering sounds, cracks appeared in the shield. The exploding barrier knocked back everything around it. When the dust settled, the man had vanished.

"Where is he?"

Just then, the ground began shaking. With massive footsteps, a 10-meter-tall giant covered in green flesh and frost appeared before them. Green sludge continuously flowed from his body like melting green ice. His body was composed of crystal-like green ice pillars.

The man in protective gear stood on its head holding the device, which now displayed 100%.

"Hahahaha, my masterpiece! Success! Artificial A-grade anomaly, success!"

"None of you will survive!"

Just then, Su Wanying moved. Black flames began covering her surroundings. These flames burned everything they touched—walls, water, even space itself seemed combustible.

"A-grade contractor?" The man in protective gear looked at her somewhat panicked. Though his artificial anomaly was A-grade, he wasn't. If she killed him...

He immediately locked onto Lin Bai. On the left was an A-grade contractor beauty, on the right was another stunning beauty in exoskeleton armor. Why could this guy have both? These two women kept glancing at him—obviously both had feelings for him!

"Damn it, it's you!"

He pressed a button targeting Lin Bai. In that instant, both he and Lin Bai were transported to a high-tech space.

"One-on-one, kid. I've been annoyed with you for a long time!"